On top of war and the coronavirus pandemic, Yemen faces looming economic disaster as a crisis gripping its main benefactor Saudi Arabia dents remittances and leaves state coffers running dry. Saudi Arabia, leading a five-year military intervention against Iran-linked Huthi rebels, has...

Kurdish-led authorities in northeastern Syria are in talks with their military allies in a US-led coalition over a promised exemption from US sanctions targeting the Syrian government, a senior Kurdish official said. Washington says the sanctions, which took effect last week, mark the start...

Two Paris statues related to France’s colonial era were found covered in red paint on Monday amid global calls to take down monuments commemorating figures with links to slavery or colonialism.  One of the statues drenched in red was of Voltaire, a leading thinker and writer of the...

Federal prosecutors have arrested a Syrian doctor working in Germany for crimes against humanity. He is suspected of beating an epileptic prisoner while working for the Syrian military intelligence agency. German federal prosecutors arrested a Syrian doctor for suspected crimes against...

North Korea has millions of propaganda leaflets ready to send to the South by an aerial armada of balloons, it said Monday, heightening its rhetoric against Seoul after blowing up a liaison office. In recent weeks Pyongyang has issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of Seoul over...

Thousands of Russian troops will march in Moscow on Wednesday as President Vladimir Putin brushes off virus fears to host a World War II commemoration ahead of a crucial vote on his rule. The military display in Red Square to mark 75 years since the Soviet victory in World War II had been...

Ten French children are being repatriated to France from refugee camps in northeast Syria, the French foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday. The ministry added that the children had been handed over to French authorities. “France today proceeded with the return of 10 young...

Chinese and EU leaders will hold a video summit Monday amid tensions over new tariffs on Chinese firms and Beijing's actions on Hong Kong as well as concerns that Beijing will buy up European companies weakened by the Covid-19 crisis. The talks come against the backdrop of a rise in bellicose...

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton marched in the latest anti-racism protest in London on Sunday, describing the experience as "really moving". The 35-year-old Hamilton, the only black driver in F1, joined the protests which have become common since the death of George Floyd in the...

Some 25,000 people, mostly women and children, have died in the Mediterranean Sea over the last eight years, the Turkish president said on Sunday. “In the past eight years, 25,000 people, most of them women and children, died in the treacherous waters of Mediterranean,” Recep Tayyip...

One person has been injured in an attack by the Kurdish YPG militia in the border town of  Azaz, security sources said late Sunday. A vehicle belonging to the Syrian National Army (SNA) was bombed, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to security concerns. No one...

Trent Alexander-Arnold has hailed Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp as the dream maker who has carried his club to the brink of the Premier League title. Klopp's side are two wins away from being crowned English champions for the first time in 30 years. They return to action for the first...

The Libyan parliament called on the government to be at full readiness against "aggression" from Egypt, denouncing recent comments by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi that his army could intervene in the war-torn country. In a recent statement, Libyan lawmakers asked authorities to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Health Ministry has put a whole district west of the capital under quarantine on Sunday after reporting 11 confirmed cases with novel Coronavirus.   The district of Jadidat Al-Fadl in the western countryside of Damascus has witnessed an increase in the...

 Saudi Arabia plans to start a tourism development fund with an initial capital investment of $4 billion, the ministry of tourism said on Sunday. The Tourism Development Fund will launch equity and debt investment vehicles to develop the tourism sector in collaboration with private and...

 Palestinians are worried their restricted access to the salty waters of the Dead Sea and its mineral-rich beaches could be cut further if Israel annexes land in the occupied West Bank. Israel, citing support from US President Donald Trump, has announced plans to extend sovereignty...

In Baghdad’s vast exhibition grounds, masked workers lugged hospital beds into rows for makeshift coronavirus wards, as doctors and officials sounded the alarm Sunday over a surge in virus cases in the capital. The long-dreaded scenario is gripping the country amid a severe economic crisis...

Iranian health authorities reported over 100 new deaths from the novel coronavirus Sunday for the third day running, stressing that the outbreak had not yet peaked in the hard-hit country. Iran reported its first coronavirus cases on February 19 and has since struggled to contain the...

A citizens' council set up by President Emmanuel Macron to explore measures for cutting carbon emissions urged the French leader on Sunday to hold a referendum on making the destruction of nature a crime. The "ecocide" proposal topped dozens of ideas presented by the 150 randomly picked...

The United Nations Sunday released a special report expressing concerns over what it called recent "deliberate attacks" against healthcare workers and facilities in Afghanistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, said it documented...